Gesa Hansen (born April 17, 1981 in Arnsberg, Germany) is a designer and artdirector working in Paris. She studied at the Bauhaus University in the classes of Axel Kufus. After graduation in she worked as a designer for Jean Nouvel and H5 in Paris and the NDC in Tokyo and exposed her work on numerous famous design events. Since 2007 she took over the artdirection in the designcompany of her father Hans Hansen before showing her first collection under her own label „The Hansen Family“ in 2009. The Hansen Family is a label with a strong handcrafted character, combining the Scandinavian style with the colors from the family archive.